Email Server
AppResponse 11 can automatically notify you by email when an alert occurs. An alert can be triggered by a policy violation. The email notification indicates the cause of the aler, with tag information included in HTML emails.
Specifying an email server
To send email, AppResponse 11 requires the address of an external SMTP email server.
To specify an email server
1. Go to the Administration > System Settings: General page and click the Email tab.
2. In the SMTP Server field, enter the IP address of the email server to be used for relaying email. This cannot be the AppResponse 11 appliance itself.
If a DNS server has been specified on the Administration > System Settings: General page, Hostname/DNS tab and is functioning, you can enter a hostname instead of the IP address. Alternatively, you can enter a fully qualified domain name.
3. Enter the port that AppResponse 11 should connect to. The default port is 25, but port numbers 1 through 65535 are valid. Note that this field will be populated automatically if you choose a Security option: port 587 for SSL/TLS, or port 587 for STARTTLS.
4. Enter the SMTP Timeout value as seconds. This is the length of time AppResponse 11 waits after attempting to connect to the email server before assuming that the connection attempt failed. The default value is 30 seconds.
5. Choose an option for providing security between the client and server at the transport layer (SMTPS): None (the default, using a plaintext socket), SSL (uses SSL handshake), or STARTTLS (begins with plaintext socket, but encrypts data after connecting). The server certificate is not validated automatically, so connections to SMTP servers using SSL or STARTTLS will be accepted even if the server certificate is invalid.
6. Optionally, type a username and password to use to authenticate with the SMTP server before sending mail. If either the username or the password is set, and not empty, then both values must be provided.
7. Enter the From Address. This can be any email address in a valid format. This address appears in the "From" field when AppResponse 11 sends a notification email to a recipient. (The SMTP server may also forward a copy of the notification to the "From" address.)
8. If you are ready to send email notifications, select the Enabled check box. If you are not ready for the appliance to start sending email, deselect the check box.
9. Choose Apply. Alternatively, choose Revert to delete any changes you have made and revert to the previous settings.